2025 bills / H.B. 480
H.B. 480 Landlord Communication Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill lets landlords send a renter's security deposit, prepaid rent refund, and itemized list of deductions electronically instead of only by traditional means. It also changes the form renters use to request those returns, sets conditions on when a court may award unpaid lease amounts, and adds exceptions to the deadline for a renter to move out after a court eviction order.
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Official description
- allows an owner to return a deposit and prepaid rent and a notice of itemized deductions through electronic means
- amends the form a renter may use to request the return of a renter's security deposit, prepaid rent, and itemized deductions
- conditions an award of the amount due under a lease agreement on the failure to make payments
- provides exceptions to the time limit by which a renter shall vacate an owner's property after an order of restitution
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 480 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 480 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 8 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 53 yes, 15 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 1 no, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 2 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how